在酒店的大堂中,放着一个摆钟。摆钟一直运作正常,但当其中一个兄弟离世后,摆钟开始运作不正常。尽管酒店的职员、钟表维修员尽力的修理它,它发生故障的频率越来越多。当另外的一个兄弟也离世后,那个摆钟也停止了运作
My grandfather's clock
Was too large for the shelf,
So it stood ninety years on the floor;
It was taller by half
Than the old man himself,
Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.
It was bought on the morn
Of the day that he was born,
And was always his treasure and pride;
But it stopped short
Never to go again,
When the old man died.